“We have very nice things left”

Julen Lopetegui, coach of Sevilla, has already settled what happened in the derby against Betis and is already focused on the match that his team must play this Wednesday in Mestalla before him Valencia corresponding to the twenty-first day of the League, which is why in his press conference he has avoided answering questions about the controversy that arose in the Benito Villamarin with the suspension of the match due to the plastic stick thrown from the stands and hitting John Jordan.

The Guipuzcoan has insisted that he has already forgotten the derby and that he has not thought about the criticism or anything that happened. “No, I’ve been thinking about tomorrow’s game, we have too many beautiful and exciting and important things ahead of us to look back. We look at tomorrow’s game and the competitions that we have left, and in which with all the difficulties we have, which will pass, we will be able to have a larger team and with more soldiers for the missions that we have, we must be able to compete with what we have, and we will do so”, recalled a Lopetegui which has clarified that Joan Jordan “He will be in the call”, although he has warned that he does not yet know if he will play at Mestalla.

The Sevilla coach has lamented the casualties that he still has in the squad with what the team has at stake. “These are the circumstances of the intensity of the competitions and the demand. We have had many difficulties in the form of injuries, injuries, the Covid. And we have them again, but this group has shown that it is capable of living with difficulty by competing, and we will continue to do so, with the intention of overcoming adversity and competing with a great rival”.

The option of being two points behind the leader

Lopetegui prefers not to think that a victory in Valencia would place the Sevilla in the League two points behind the leader, the Real Madrid, which right now has one more game. “The accounts are very simple, the most difficult thing is the game in a historic setting like Mestalla, against a great rival. We have to prepare well for that game.”

The technician also referred to the market and the arrival of ‘Tecatito’ Corona and the output of Oscar Rodriguez. “We hope to have a stronger team at the exit of the market than at the entrance. Jesus He is a player to the liking of the sports management and also the coach, he has to adapt, and it is not easy, to the way of playing, to the intensities… and that takes time, but he has the maturity to do it faster and he has us to help in different roles.”

Finally, he referred to the fact that he still does not know if he will ask to have Dmitrovic, with Covid. “We depend on the little bug,” he clarified and defended the young man Alfonso Pastor of the criticism received after his performance in the derby. “His career will be very long, he will have regular good moments, better moments, bad moments, like everyone else, and he will learn from everyone. I have no doubt that he will have a very long career, he is a very young boy.

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